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Building and Programming an Asuro Robot in Linux?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the domo-arigato-mr-roboto dept.

0R35T35 asks: "I'm currently in the process of building an Asuro mobile robot, and am startled to find (through Google) that there aren't any English speaking community sites for this robot kit. Does anyone know of sites or resources devoted to this cute little guy, or have an Asuro of their own?"

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  1. I have just the site for you: by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    This should help.

  2. Well... I can give you something close by technoextreme · · Score: 3, Informative

    Heheheh... After reading through the instructions I realized what microcontroller it ran on. The microcontroller itself has a very large following. Im sure these people will help you program your little bitty robot. http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?POSTNUKESID=17f 53fb2c3f81f15a81c3e573d6d8bbc

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  3. This right here by Scrameustache · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The microcontroller itself has a very large following.

    This is why I come to slashdot : )

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  4. Re:From the linked blog... by sophanes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends. From what I can gather, the author is trying to send an array of integers to the serial port. To do this, the uC forms a character string from the array of integers using sprintf() then sends the string. This is a pretty inefficient way of doing things (particularly given the bloat in avr-libc's string handling).

    A much better idea would be to set the USART to use 8 data bits and then send the array 1 byte at a time - trivial if you are using 8-bit integers, but requires a 16-bit integer to be sent as two bytes - and stitching the data back together at the host PC end. PC resources are cheap, uC resources are scarce.

  5. start one! by dopez · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about starting a community?

    I also found out that there aren't much english forums or websites for the Asuro, though Arexx does have an english forum for their robot : http://www.arexx.com/forum/index.php?c=5&language= english

    But i found out most of the people at http://www.roboternetz.de/phpBB2/index.php wouldn't mind to answer a few questions in english once in a while. (though you might want to babelfish a few words to figure out which forum to post in)

    I though already to start a site or forum about the Asuro but figured there wouldn't be much (if any) interest in an english forum or site but maybe i was wrong?